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GCP – How Google Cloud helps you to architect for DR when you have locality restricted workloads
There are many reasons why locality restrictions need to be taken into consideration and it’s something CISOs and resiliency officers need to factor in. A balance needs to be met between taking advantage of the best features of the cloud while meeting your locality requirements. Google Cloud helps you meet your business objectives; whether your […]
GCP – Build your perfect Google Cloud infrastructure using Terraform and the gcloud CLI
Infrastructure-as-Code (Iac) tools like Terraform are experiencing fast growing adoption by the developer community. This is no surprise because they greatly simplify the operational overhead associated with deploying and managing cloud infrastructure. In support of this growing trend, today we are pleased to announce Google Cloud CLI’s preview release of Declarative Export for Terraform. Declarative […]
GCP – Redesigning the Cloud SDK + CLI for easier development
At Google Cloud we are constantly iterating on our tools to improve the developer experience and make it easier for you to interact with our technologies. To this end, we are pleased to announce the rebranded Google Cloud SDK. Here’s how the SDK now looks: Click to enlarge Easing discovery by renaming our command line […]
GCP – 78% of VM migrations realize payback in one year or less
Enterprises are interested in moving to the cloud to increase agility in a world where everyone is remote while simultaneously reducing the burden of operating costs. The question is how can they transition to the cloud efficiently without incurring more costs, operational burden and service interruptions while delivering improved experiences to their customers? And, what […]
GCP – Launching new feature or games on existing Cloud Spanner database with Load Generator Tool
Game developers often reuse their existing database platform to launch their new games or launch new features to their existing games. This requires the database to scale in terms of new schema (tables, index, etc.), data and traffic. For games built with Cloud Spanner databases, most database operations can be done seamlessly, without affecting production […]
GCP – Four Ways States Use Digital Tools to Deliver Critical Services
Government leaders are reimagining the way they serve communities in the new digital era. They’ve traded manual, paper-based processes and in-person services for digitized, flexible solutions that offer better constituent experiences and improve operations. Google Cloud is working with SpringML to help public sector agencies address four pandemic-driven challenges with digital solutions. Keeping the World […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports ALLOW_WEAK_CRYPTO* parameters for the Oracle Native Network Encryption (NNE) option
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports two new customer modifiable sqlnet.ora parameters for the Oracle Native Network Encryption (NNE) option. This feature allows customers to block older ciphers and algorithms from being used by the SQL*Net encryption and checksum parameters. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing a new Amazon RDS Multi-AZ option with up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated failovers typically under 35 seconds, and readable standby instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and for MySQL now supports a new Multi-AZ deployment option with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs). This deployment option is optimized for write transactions and is ideal when your workloads require lower write latency, automated failovers, and more read […]
AWS – Amazon MSK offers enhanced AWS CloudFormation support
You can now use AWS CloudFormation to manage Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) cluster configurations and SASL/SCRAM secrets. To learn more about Amazon MSK support for AWS CloudFormation, refer to our AWS CloudFormation documentation. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure IoT Central generally available in South Central US and Canada Central
You can now use Azure IoT Central in South Central (United States) and Canada Central (Canada) to build reliable, scalable, and secure enterprise grade IoT Solutions. Read More for the details.
